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July/August 2008 E-Current
 E-Current
July-August 2008 |
In this Issue: Matching Grant Doubles Your Donation • CORAL’s New Look • Coral Spawning in Bonaire • CORAL Reef Leaders Graduate • Star Island Project Officially Halted |
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Dear Friends,
Earlier this month, CORAL attended the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida—a meeting that gathers the world’s foremost coral reef conservation leaders to discuss strategies for protecting our reefs. We’re proud to report that CORAL’s targeted method of creating effectively managed marine protected areas was identified as the best way to protect coral reefs.
In this issue of E-Current, we share an incredible opportunity for you to double your donation to CORAL to benefit our work along the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. Our new Web site is finally live, we graduated the first class of CORAL Reef Leaders, and we tell you how to join CORAL staff in Bonaire to watch coral spawning. To top it off, CORAL was featured in two Time magazine articles: "Coral Reefs Face Extinction" and "Coral Under Siege." Read the online version here.
It’s been a busy summer at CORAL and we look forward to sharing our news with you!
Cheers,
Brian Huse
Executive Director
The Coral Reef Alliance
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When you donate before September 15, you double your donation to CORAL. An anonymous donor has offered a $25,000 matching grant to help CORAL expand its projects along the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef (MAR). If we raise the matching funds, we'll dedicate $50,000 to the second largest coral reef system in the world. Read the story » |
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A Fresh Look for CORAL
After more than a year of planning, designing, writing, editing, testing, and more testing, CORAL is thrilled to announce the launch of its new Web site at www.coral.org. Read the story » |
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Join CORAL in Bonaire for Coral Spawning
Enjoying the recent designation by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as having the "healthiest reefs in the Caribbean," the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire is celebrating this year's International Year of the Reef with a summer's worth of activities for divers, including guided coral spawning trips. Read the story » |
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Cozumel CORAL Reef Leaders Graduate
CORAL graduated the first nine members of its CORAL Reef Leadership Network training program on April 30, 2008, in Cozumel, Mexico. The program is designed to teach local tour operators how to train others in environmentally sustainable marine recreation practices. Read the story » |
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Star Island Project Officially Halted
A landmark legal probe into the development of Star Island, a controversial 95-acre artificial island in the heart of Princess Alexandria National Park in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), has been approved. Read the story » |
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* Photo Credits and Notes:
Nudibranch Photo: Aeolid Nudibranch (Caloria indica), Fiji
Photographer: Chuck Savall
Left Side Photo: Pillar Coral (Dendrogyra cylindricus)
Photographer: Julie Bennett
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